Lualabaea
Appearance
Lualabaea Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Actinistia |
Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
Family: | †Mawsoniidae |
Genus: | †Lualabaea Saint-Seine, 1955 |
Type species | |
Lulabaea lerichei Saint-Seine, 1955
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Lualabaea is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth, belonging to the family Mawsoniidae, containing the single species L. lerichei. It has been found in Late Jurassic or Berriasian aged deposits in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ Cavin, Lionel; Valentin, Xavier; Garcia, Géraldine (2016-07-01). "A new mawsoniid coelacanth (Actinistia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern France". Cretaceous Research. 62: 65–73. Bibcode:2016CrRes..62...65C. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.02.002. ISSN 0195-6671.